Day: 18 June 2025

Abortion is a complex moral issue. But when vaccines and medicines are developed from research using aborted foetuses, we should at least be told, says Dr David Bell. Conscience must be respected.

Stefan Niehoff, the German pensioner famous for a meme calling Robert Habeck a moron, has been found guilty of five criminal retweets and one criminal reply and fined €825. He promises to appeal.

Spain's disastrous national blackout in April was triggered by solar farms switching off in response to plummeting power prices, an official investigation has found.

Foreign nationals are responsible for more than a quarter of sex assaults on women successfully prosecuted in Britain despite being just 11% of the population, official figures obtained via FOI have revealed.

Opponents of the decriminalisation of abortion have vowed to fight on to block it in the Lords after MPs last night approved allowing women to abort their own unborn children for any reason, using any method, up to birth.

The West’s Cold War-era doctrine of mutually assured destruction relied on rational actors. Iran is not rational, says Clive Pinder. It is eschatological. Islamism is not a deterrable enemy. It is a theological death cult.

Sceptics lose all their scepticism when faced with claims the Government could block out the Sun, says Ben Pile. But this is no less a delusion of grandeur than the notion human CO2 emissions are controlling the climate.

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.